To:MAXIM GORKY

Published:First published in 1924 inLenin Miscellany I.

      Sent to Capri.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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July 25, 1913

Ihave kept on intending to write to you, and then
pulling it off on account of my wife’s operation. The other
day at last the operation look place, and things are now on
the mend. The operation proved a rather difficult one: I
am very glad indeed that we managed to get Kocher to
operate.

Nowto business. You wrote that you would be in Berlin
in August. When in August? At the beginning or at the end?
We intend to leave here on August 4. Our tickets lake us
through Zurich, Munich and Vienna, and we shall break the
journey in each of these cities. (Possibly the doctor will
not let us leave so soon as the 4th: in that case we shall
postpone it again.)

Couldn’twe see each other somewhere? In all probability
it would suit you to travel through Berne, or through
Zurich, or through Munich, wouldn’t it?

Thereisgreatneed for us to meet. The closing down ofPravdacreates a devilishly difficult situation. Perhaps
we could think of something. Then in Berlin you could do
a very great deal for us, i.e., forPravda.

ThereforeI beg you to writeimmediately, be it only
two words, whether our meeting is possible, either here or
in the places mentioned, at the beginning of August? If it
isimpossible, I will write to you about everything in greater
detail, particularly about the school (the arrest of theorganiser[1]has spoilt things for us damnably; we are looking
for another).

Ishake your hand warmly and wish you the best of luck,
and most of all health for the journey. So replyat once!

Yours,Lenin

Address:Herrn Ulianoff. 4. Gesellschaftsstraβe, 4. (
Svizzera).Bern.

[1]E.F.Rozmirovich.—Ed.